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- PayPal has hired a senior policy executive from Chainalysis, the market’s largest crypto-tracing business. Former Chainalysis head of policy and regulatory relations Jesse Spiro has joined PayPal’s crypto business to work on regulatory policy
- Chainalysis is well-known in the cryptocurrency market. These tools are only as good as the data they’re based on, and Chainalysis is the only firm that has been collecting data that links real-world entities to blockchain transactions since 2013
- On July 28, PayPal will release its second-quarter earnings
PayPal has hired a top policy executive from Chainalysis, the largest crypto-tracing firm in the market. Jesse Spiro, the former head of policy and regulatory relations at Chainalysis, is joining PayPal’s crypto division to focus on regulatory policy. He described the new position as very appealing and intriguing, highlighting the digital behemoth’s scale and ability to bring cryptocurrencies to the payments industry. Spiro mentioned in an interview that, at PayPal, he will be helping regulatory affairs for their crypto company, and he can’t tell you how exciting that is in regards to the future of crypto and what the future landscape will look like.
As the premier supplier of investigations and compliance software that helps government authorities and private sector organizations throughout the world to detect and prevent bitcoin crime and money laundering, Chainalysis is well-known in the cryptocurrency market.
These tools are only as good as the data they’re based on, and Chainalysis is the only firm that has been collecting data that links real-world entities to blockchain transactions since 2013. Financial institutions are seeing unprecedented demand for cryptocurrencies, government agencies are emphasizing dangers like ransomware that exploit it, and cryptocurrency exchanges are looking for a competitive advantage as bitcoin becomes more widespread.
Blockchain data is the asset that can assist public and private sector organizations to understand the dangers and possibilities associated with this asset class, as well as encourage its use in a responsible and safe manner.
Following rumors in June 2020 that a crypto service for the financial giant was in the works, PayPal launched its bitcoin buying and selling feature in October 2020. Since then, the publicly listed business has been a foundation of crypto’s mainstream moment, purchasing a crypto custodian in March and saying in May that it was working on allowing coin withdrawals. On July 28, PayPal will release its second-quarter earnings.
He thinks it’s really amazing that PayPal has such a worldwide reach, the technology, and resources behind them, and that as an MSB [money services business] of their scale, they’ve embraced cryptocurrency, as Spiro said.
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